Sentence examples for lightning campaign from inspiring English sources

In a lightning campaign the following August, he retook the insurgents' centre of Knin, in the south-west.

Not that anyone expected a lightning campaign without setbacks; indeed, both Mr. Bush and Mr. Rumsfeld have often said the effort would be long and hard.

Either way, Americans are about to enter a complex phase of the war that is the very antithesis of the lightning campaign they have waged so far.

Constantine, who in 307 had married Maximian's daughter Fausta as his second wife, invaded Italy in 312 and after a lightning campaign defeated his brother-in-law Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge near Rome.

Following in his father's footsteps, he deserted the government after Cinna's death, raised a force among his father's veterans in central Italy, and helped to conquer Italy and, in a lightning campaign, Sicily and the province of Africa for Sulla.

In 1755, at the end of a lightning campaign into the Mon country, he founded a new port, to be called Yangon (Rangoon), at the site of the Mon fishing village of Dagon.

He started with lightning campaigns against the Triballi and Illyrians, which took him across the Danube.

On Sulla's orders the Senate gave Pompey the job of recovering Sicily and Africa from the Marians a task he completed in two lightning campaigns (82 81).

These will not start arriving until June, but the first two batallions have already gone into action, using 22 Vietnam-era Huey helicopters.On December 19th, when the thousands of raspachines (migrant coca-leaf pickers) had gone home for Christmas, the Colombian police began a lightning spraying campaign in Putumayo.

So if Louis Vuitton is looking to shift its goods on the streets of Osaka and Tokyo, their recruitment of Lightning, alongside campaign co-stars Jaden (son of Will) Smith and Korean actress Doona Bae, makes perfect sense.

The 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has become an unexpected lightning rod this campaign season.